Anna Folger
(1771–1844)
BIRTH
1771
PLACE
Nantucket, Massachusetts
DEATH
1844
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Thomas Coffin
(1766–1815)
CHILDREN
Lucretia Mott
(1793-1880)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anna Folger Coffin was a Nantucket Quaker and the mother of Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright. She kept a shop while her husband Thomas Coffin was at sea and continued the family business after his death in 1815.
EARLY LIFE
While Thomas Coffin was at sea, Anna Folger Coffin kept a family shop. After he died in 1815, she opened a successful store in Philadelphia and by 1824 was running a boarding house. She was the mother of Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright.
CAREER
DEATH
Anna Folger Coffin died in Philadelphia in 1844. After her husband's death in 1815 she had supported her family through a store and later a boarding house. The consulted sources do not give a specific cause of death or verified burial place.
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